Attacks on Tesla have escalated nationwide, with Tesla dealerships hit with gunfire and Molotov cocktails; drivers threatened, doxed and terrorized; cars vandalized and tires slashed; and charging stations lit on fire.
Social media accounts like TeslaDashcam on X and Cybertruck Owners Only on Facebook are posting videos of individuals damaging cars so they can be identified and charged. Assailants must not realize that Teslas have seven cameras and security features to alert owners of threats, as the company has pointed out.
The violence, which began in January, is directed at Elon Musk, and his mission with the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) to cut government waste and fraud. The temporary federal agency was created by an executive order from President Donald Trump to modernize “federal technology and software to maximize governmental efficiency and productivity.”
Highlighting the severity of these crimes, Attorney General Pam Bondi released a statement on March 18 about the violence,
Here is some of the domestic terrorism she’s talking about.
In Salem, Oregon, “Adam Matthew Lansky, 41, has been charged by criminal complaint with illegally possessing an unregistered destructive device,” reports the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Oregon. The DOJ’s office added,
“According to court documents, on January 20, 2025, officers from the Salem Police Department responded to a report of an individual throwing Molotov cocktails at a local car dealership. Later, on February 19, 2025, officers returned to the same dealership after a report of damage from what appeared to be bullets fired into a building and vehicle.”
Journalist and author Andy Ngo, who has written about terrorism by extremist groups, reported that Lansky also goes by the name Allison, and is a “leftist trans activist.”
According to Salem’s Statesman Journal, “The man’s fingerprints were identified on some of the glass bottles used for explosive devices recovered from the scene.”
Another transgender-identified activist, Justin Thomas Nelson, who goes by the name Luce Grace Nelson, “was charged by complaint with one count of malicious destruction of property for a series of incidents at the Tesla dealership in Loveland, Colorado,” the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Colorado reported.
On January 29, Loveland Police “discovered an incendiary device, commonly referred to as a ‘Molotov cocktail’” next to “a Cyber Truck located at the Tesla dealership.” On February 2, the dealership’s sign was spray painted with the word “NAZI.”
On February 7, more graffiti and incendiary devices were found, and on February 11, “a security guard at the dealership came into contact with a person painting graffiti, which used an expletive, on the front windows of the building.”
Finally, “police confronted Nelson at the dealership,” finding “a container of gasoline plus a box of bottles and wick material” in his car. Although mainstream media outlets reported a “woman” was arrested, Ngo again reported that it was “a leftist man” who “groomed children [online] into transitioning and encouraged them to lie to their families.”
The DOJ reported another arrest in Charleston, South Carolina, “A third defendant wrote profane messages against President Trump around Tesla charging stations before lighting the charging stations on fire with Molotov cocktails.”
The “hapless anti-Musk activist” evidently “ended up setting himself on fire,” the New York Post reported, adding, “Daniel Clarke-Pounder, 24, burned down three EV chargers in a South Carolina parking lot Friday.”
Clarke-Pounder scrawled “long live the Ukraine” and anti-Trump epithets on the chargers.
The DOJ underscored the seriousness of these offences, saying,
“Each defendant faces serious charges carrying a minimum penalty of five years and up to 20 years in prison.”
“The Department of Justice is committed to ending all acts of violence and arson directed at Tesla properties and otherwise.”
Other Tesla attacks have taken place in Maryland, Massachusetts, Washington, Missouri and Nevada.
In addition to outright attacks and destruction of private property, the Tesla Takedown Action Network is calling for protests at several dealerships on March 21 and 22, with a huge protest at 500 locations scheduled for March 29, targeting 277 Tesla dealers and Supercharger stations.
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